Why don't we just tax carbon emissions?

Published: 15 March 2024
on channel: DW Planet A

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Burning carbon, for example in the form of coal, produces cheap energy – but also tons of emissions. Why don't we just tax that? Many regions and countries are already doing just that. Can a carbon tax stop us from polluting?

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Credits:
Reporter: Kiyo Dörrer
Video Editor: Markus Mörtz
Camera: Henning Goll
Supervising Editor: Michael Trobridge, Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann, Joanna Gottschalk
Fact-Check: Kirsten Funck
Thumbnail: Em Chabridon

Special thanks for additional interviews go to: Matthew Kotchen and Jeroen van den Bergh.

Read more:
Carbon Pricing Dashboard from the World Bank:
https://carbonpricingdashboard.worldb...

Effectiveness of carbon taxes (Green 2021):
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10...

British energy sector decarbonization (Leroutier 2022): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

Reduction in emissions in British Columbia (Petris 2022): https://link.springer.com/article/10....

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
00:43 Why CO2 is a troublemaker
01:36 What is a carbon tax?
02:35 History and types of carbon taxes
03:30 Ways of using tax revenue
04:57 Emissions trading systems
05:38 Effectiveness of carbon taxes
06:34 Pricing of carbon
07:35 Problems with the carbon tax
09:08 Outlook

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